Fires Were Started: British Cinema and ThatcherismFires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser known but equally important territory such as the work of Black British filmmakers, the Leeds Animation Workshop and Channel 4's Film on Four. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives, My Beautiful Launderette, Chariots of Fire and Drowning by Numbers. |
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Indeed , a similar position characterises many of the reviews that greeted the first
edition of this book , as well as the only subsequent academic exploration of the
cinema during the Thatcher era , John Hill ' s British Cinema in the 1980s ( 1999 )
...
In the midst of their discussion , Henry utters the Protestant position rarely
articulated verbally or visually on television and film : Finn : You think that ' s all
not irrelevant now ? Gladstone and Home Rule ? Henry : No , no , Gladstone
tended to ...
Thatcher articulated a ' two roles of women ' position that derived from the
stances of British governments since the 1960s . She indicated that women ( by
nature and by culture ) had two jobs to do in life : ( i ) as wife and mother , and ( ii
) as ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Thatcherite Politics and the British Film of the 1980s | 15 |
Modernism in the British Films of the Thatcher Era | 30 |
Autorská práva | |
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| Titul | Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism Close Up Film and Media Studies |
| Redaktor | Lester D. Friedman |
| Vydání | 2, ilustrované vydání |
| Vydavatel | Wallflower, 2006 |
| Zdroj originálu: | Michiganská univerzita |
| Digitalizováno | 21. květen 2008 |
| ISBN | 190476472X, 9781904764724 |
| Délka | Počet stran: 341 |
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